Bug#900598: [desmume] Include non free file

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 10:07 PM, Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 01.06.2018 um 21:58 schrieb Bastien ROUCARIÈS:
>> Package: desmume
>> Severity: serious
>>
>> The following file source files include material under a non-free license from
>> Unicode Inc. Therefore, it is not possible to ship this in main or contrib.
>>
>> src/utils/ConvertUTF.c
>>
>> This license does not grant any permission to modify the files (thus failing
>> DFSG#3). Moreover, the license grant seems to attempt to restrict use to
>> "products supporting the Unicode Standard" (thus failing DFSG#6).
>>
>> In this case a solution is to use libicu and to remove this code by repacking.
>>
>> If this is a false-positive, please report a bug against Lintian.
>>
>> Refer to https://bugs.debian.org/823100 for details.
>
> Indeed this is a Lintian bug. Unicode changed the license and the new
> license can be found here:

No it is not a lintian bug. Unicode withdraw this code before applying
the license change.

Exhibit 1 does not apply in this case.

>
> http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#Exhibit1
>
> Also see https://bugs.debian.org/864729 for more information. In my
> opinion this is merely a documentation bug but not a Policy violation.
>
> Regards,
>
> Markus
>